Sat.Oct 24, 2020 - Fri.Oct 30, 2020

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4 Tips For Making Every One-On-One Meeting Count

15Five

The most powerful coaching tool a manager has is a one-on-one meeting. These meetings are dedicated time for managers to learn important information about their employees and offer useful feedback in real-time. When one-on-ones happen frequently, managers have the opportunity to increase their overall effectiveness and boost employee performance. Here are four tips to help you have more meaningful one-on-ones with your employees each and every week. 1.

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Seasonal Hiring Needn’t Be So Stressful

Eightfold

You’ve seen the headlines each year. “Retailer Rushes to Bring on 50,000 Seasonal Workers.” And, “Delivery Company to Add 70,000 Drivers in Two Months.” And so on. The rush goes on. Year after year after year. In fact, it sometimes happens throughout the year. There are two tax seasons, so accounting companies often have two seasonal hiring seasons.

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Uber, Lyft Ordered to Classify California Drivers as Employees

SHRM Resources

Uber and Lyft must reclassify their California drivers as employees, rather than independent contractors, to comply with the state's strict employee-classification rules, according to a California appeals court. But voters will get to weigh in before the order takes effect.

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Most Important Developments for 10/30

GetFive

Can you make your employees get a flu shot? What about a COVID-19 vaccine? Before you try to, you may want to watch your step. Flu season is in full swing. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says getting the flu vaccine this year is more important than ever. And a COVID-19 vaccine is on the horizon, which offers the promise of a return to normal society and safe workplaces.

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The Rules Do Apply: Navigating HR Compliance

Speaker: Ann Meyers Piccirillo

HR Compliance is like a giant game of whack-a-mole. Once you think your company is compliant with all policies and procedures documented and in place, there’s a new or amended law, regulation, or final rule that pops up landing you back at ‘start.’ There are shifts, interpretations, and balancing acts to understanding compliance changes. Keeping up is not easy and it’s very time consuming.

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Eightfold Now Valued At $1 Billion: A Platform Not A Product

Josh Bersin

Over my years as an analyst I run across a lot of HR technology companies. Some start life with a killer application, others start with a vision of creating a network or library of content, and others want to build a platform. Workday, for example, was a platform company from the start – they didn’t. Read more» The post Eightfold Now Valued At $1 Billion: A Platform Not A Product appeared first on JOSH BERSIN.

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Why Covid-19 is a threat to women's wellbeing at work

HR Zone

Employees Covid-19's disproportionate impact on women.

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Minimum Wage for Tipped Employees by State 2020

Paycor

If employees regularly receive tips, complying with minimum wage regulations can be a complicated business—especially when calculating overtime. The reality is, the rules can be very different based on where you are in the country. If you’re running payroll for restaurants or hospitality you need to be informed of tipped minimum wage laws wherever you are.

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Why employee experience should be a holistic, personalized journey

HRExecutive

An employee experience is comprised of a series of moments. Moment that matter. “As leaders, we have an opportunity to create better employee experiences during these times of uncertainty,” Teresa Smith, senior manager of the strategic advisory group at UKG, said Thursday during the virtual HR Technology Conference & Expo. “[The employee experience] covers all interactions an employee has with a company before, during and after their tenure,” she said.

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A Toxic Work Culture is forcing your Best Employees to Quit!

Brigette Hyacinth

Whenever a boss acts like a dictator – shutting down, embarrassing, or firing anyone who dares to challenge the status quo – you’ve got a toxic workplace problem. And that’s not just because of the boss’ bad behavior, but because that behavior creates an environment in which everyone is scared, intimidated and often willing to throw their colleagues under the bus, just to stay on the good side of the such bosses.

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Automate Your Onboarding Process In 7 Steps

Efficient employee onboarding is more than a warm welcome—it's a catalyst for business growth. Automated onboarding transforms new hires into productive team members faster, fostering long-term satisfaction and talent retention. For HR, automation means replacing inefficient manual processes with streamlined, cost-effective operations. Our eBook reveals how automating employee onboarding delivers these benefits, reducing HR challenges and elevating new employee readiness.

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Wondering How You’ll Get Through a Pandemic Winter? Try These 9 Tips to Stay Connected and Motivated

The Muse

Staying connected and motivated during a pandemic was hard enough in the warmest weather. These microsteps can help you take care of yourself and succeed at work this winter.

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Polarization: The Power of Dialogue and the Problem of Implicit Bias

Conversation Matters

We all decry the polarization that we currently observe on many issues, race, politics, guns, healthcare, climate, immigration. Columnists and scholars have produced reams of arguments intended to change the opinions of those on the opposing side. However, it is difficult not to conclude that rational argument, as important as it is, does not reduce polarization. .

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Here are 9 key lessons from HR Tech

HRExecutive

JUMP TO. Why remote work is here to stay. Why the talent marketplace is thriving. The ethics of returning to the workplace. Using crisis as an opportunity. With COVID-19 prompting HRE ’s annual HR Technology Conference & Exposition® to go virtual for the first time ever, it’s no surprise that the pandemic—and how it’s changing all aspects of the workplace—was the most popular topic of conversation during the four-day event.

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HR in a recession: how to improve staff morale during difficult times

HR Zone

Culture How to improve staff morale in a recession.

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Modernizing Hiring: The Rise of Contingent Recruitment in 2024

The job market is changing fast, and to stay ahead, your hiring strategy needs to be flexible. With recent economic shifts, more companies are turning to contingent workers for their adaptability and cost savings. In fact, 32% of businesses are already prioritizing contingent over traditional full-time positions. Curious to learn more? In our new guide, you'll discover: The major benefits of incorporating contingent workers into your team.

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5 Cyber Security Tips That Will Make Remote Working Safe

Take It Personel-ly

When COVID-19 struck, companies were forced to shut down but most preferred to send their employees to work from home in accordance with health regulations. For the company, this meant that operations went on as normal but employees were thrown into a foreign working environment that they were not used to.In an office setup, you […].

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Remote engagement: The next great corporate challenge

PI Worldwide

Yon is a co-founder of HomployeeHub, the remote work experts that help teams re-connect through virtual hosted live events and remote-work gift bundles. . Over the last six months, the corporate world has been forced to conduct a profound operational experiment. . The Great Remote Work Experiment, as it’s been dubbed, forced a sudden and total shift to remote work that’s rocked some organizations.

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These are the changes coming to the HR tech market

HRExecutive

Just one year ago, the world of work looked vastly different: The country was experiencing record-low unemployment, HR leaders were focused on retaining employees in a tight labor market and industry forecasters were plotting what the future of work would look like. Then, the pandemic came—skyrocketing unemployment and prompting widespread economic uncertainty.

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How to reverse the trend of remote micromanagement

HR Zone

Managers Combating the rise of remote micromanagement.

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The Essential Performance Review Checklist

Performance reviews are a proactive way to engage with your employees, provide clear communication about expectations, and acknowledge them for their hard work. But getting the right framework and creating consistency across your organization can be tricky. We put together this checklist to help you evaluate your current performance review process and equip managers with the right tools to perform individual assessments.

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How to Answer “What Is Your Work Style?” in an Interview (Plus Examples!)

The Muse

This question can be as daunting as it is vague. Don’t panic! We’ll explain why interviewers are asking, give tips on how to answer, and share sample answers.

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2 Steps To Help You Motivate Your Virtual Team In Uncertain Times

SHRM

Marketers keep saying that crises can be enormous opportunities for branding because they define organizations, but it’s also the case for people. In uncertain environments, when guidelines are missing, we show our truth. Thus, we should play more with personal attributes and strengths to build resiliency and experiment with new behaviors while dreaming of a better future.

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Here’s how COVID-19 is impacting HR tech spend

HRExecutive

Among the many headline-makers at Tuesday’s HR Tech Conference was the public debut of the Sierra-Cedar/Sapient Insights HR Systems Survey. Now in its 23rd year, the research—unveiled by Sapient Insights Group Chief Research Officer Stacey Harris—featured a deep dive into HR tech trends, with responses from more than 1,900 individual organizations. In a year filled with unknowns and uncertainties, the report shed light on the tangible actions employers are taking in response to the pandemic and

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How to improve cross-cultural communications in the workplace

HR Zone

Culture 10 ways to improve cross-cultural communications.

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An HR Leaders Guide: 7 Questions To Ask When Developing Your Cancer Strategy

As HR and Benefits leaders are in the midst of evaluating cancer care solutions and designing their requirements for vendors, it’s key to know what questions to ask to ensure the development of a truly comprehensive strategy: from prevention to diagnosis to treatment to survivorship. Getting to the right answers starts with asking the right questions: How can better access improve engagement?

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3 Simple Tips for Managing Remote Employees

Jason Lauritsen

Regardless of when this pandemic ends (which feels like never to me right now), the way we work will never go back to how it was before. Sure, offices will open and some people will return to their cubicles, but many won’t. If there’s one thing we’ve learned about work over the past several months, it’s that work can be done successfully well beyond the walls of the office—sometimes even better.

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How Do You Tell if You Have a Good HR Department or a Bad One?

Evil HR Lady

On a Reddit post, I advised a poster to speak with her HR department. Several people jumped in to say no, go straight to the Labor Board, as HR is bad. This is sometimes true, and I clarified that if you had a bad HR department, you should, of course, go directly to the relevant government agency or hire an attorney. And I got an excellent question back “How can you tell if you have a bad HR Dept or a good one?

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Why whole-person care can empower employees and organizations

HRExecutive

If the HR response to the pandemic was a book, Chapter 1 would have been focused on the effort to transition employees from the office to home : getting them there safely, equipping them with the right tools, figuring out how to manage a remote workforce. Now, we’re in Chapter 2—and the work has to have more of a long-range focus. Pat Wadors. “We have to change [employees’] brains to think about this as a marathon, not a sprint,” said Pat Wadors, chief talent officer of ServiceNow, at a session

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Tell your brand story using Workable Advanced Career Pages

Workable

How important is a careers page as part of recruitment marketing? First off, Eftychia stresses that a careers page is a critical part of the overall recruiting marketing strategy of a company. The vast majority of candidates will end up in your careers page during their job application journey. “The second thing after seeing an open role in a board or another platform is to click to go to the company’s website and look for all the details of the company,” Eftychia says.

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AI & DEI: With Great Opportunities Comes Great HR Responsibility

Speaker: Jen Kirkwood - Partner, Responsible HR & AI at IBM and World Economic Forum Executive Fellow

The promise of AI for today’s organizations is real, yet in a frenzied state of experimentation, many stumble to get to a full-scale enterprise. As companies race to discover what generative AI can do, HR must lead conversations about how to balance cutting-edge innovations with integrity, trust, and diversity. Globally, organizations are at a critical intersection of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and AI acceleration.

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[#WorkTrends] Company Culture: The High Cost of Misalignment

TalentCulture

Among remote work teams, how common is misalignment to company culture? And what is the cost? All over the United States, cases of COVID-10 are once again spiking. We’re setting […]. The post [#WorkTrends] Company Culture: The High Cost of Misalignment appeared first on TalentCulture.

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Are UnDiscovered Conversations The Key to Client Retention?

Babette Ten Haken - Professional Development

What happens when you are open to undiscovered conversations? Instead of relying on scripted client conversations to guide your discussions with clients. These memorable conversations arise spontaneously. A dynamic dialogue begins. You both feel your brains expanding as you connect to, and become interconnected with, the other individual. As you begin your dialogue, you and your client start the conversation you are supposed to be having with each other.

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5 takeaways from the first day of HR Tech

HRExecutive

The HR Technology Conference got underway Tuesday, with HR, tech and business leaders from around the world converging in an unprecedented virtual setting to talk about this unprecedented year. The pandemic’s impact on the world of work was the topic of the day Tuesday—from how it is fueling expansion in different corners of the HR tech market to the skill sets HR and tech leaders today need to develop to weather the ongoing changes.